Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron. This book introduces Deborah Knott, Attorney-at-Law and candidate for district court judge in eastern NC’s Colleton County. She is the youngest child and only daughter of Kezzie Knott, once a notorious bootlegger who ran white lightening up and down the eastern coast from Canada to Florida. She has eleven older brothers, all of whom have been married at least once, some three times. When the book opens, she and her father are estranged. He was not happy that she studied law and he thinks a district court judge has to hear too many sordid cases to make it a fit career for the daughter he always wanted to shelter from the world’s harsh realities. As the primaries approach, though, Deborah’s campaign takes a back seat when a teenage girl asks her to discover why her mother was murdered eighteen years ago. Local politics vie with small-town rivalries and long-buried secrets. This book was the first (and so far, only) to win an Edgar, an Agatha, an Anthony, and a Macavity in the same year. QUESTIONS FOR MARGARET MARON. Q: What was the inspiration for Bootlegger's Daughter? A: I had written a series of mysteries based on my NYC experiences and I wanted to set a separate series in my native state. To do that, I had to try to make the new Deborah Knott character as different as I could from Lt. Sigrid Harald, NYPD. Reporters and attorneys had been done to death, but no one had written about a woman judge before. Because Sigrid was a loner with only a mother, a grandmother, and a handful of cousins, I gave Deborah a large rowdy family. Sigrid liked art and music and was fairly intellectural. Deborah likes Willie and Waylon and the boys. Sigrid is uncomfortable and awkward with interpersonal relationships, D is comfortable in her skin and has never seen a tight pair of male jeans she didn't like, etc. Another reason to make her a district court judge was so that I could send her across the state and look at various aspects of North Carolina as it transitions from rural agrarian to increasingly urban high-tech. Q: Is Deborah Knott's character similar to someone you know? A: Not really. There may be stray aspects of many of my friends and acquaintances, but she really is a composite. Q: If you were a member of our club what questions would you like to discuss about Bootlegger’s Daughter? A: Since the book also focuses on grassroots politics, in light of the last election, just how much attention did club members give to any of the judicial candidates? Especially now that more and more judges run as "non-partisan" candidates. Did anyone look to see what their previous party affiliations were? 1. What roles do Deborah’s internal Preacher and Pragmatist play? Why does she think of them as male instead of female? 2. How does the Knott clan contrast with the Vickerys? 3. Running for a local office means going out and meeting voters one on one. How would you handle being questioned about your religion or your views on alcohol? 4. What role does religion play in this book? 5. What are the family values? 6. There seem to be many secrets in this story, especially about sexual/romantic relationships. Why is that? 12 Margaret Maron Quotes on Bootlegger's Daughter, Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side and Christmas Mourning - Quotes.pub. Here you will find all the famous Margaret Maron quotes. There are more than 12+ quotes in our Margaret Maron quotes collection. We have collected all of them and made stunning Margaret Maron wallpapers & posters out of those quotes. You can use this wallpapers & posters on mobile, desktop, print and frame them or share them on the various social media platforms. You can download the quotes images in various different sizes for free. In the below list you can find quotes in various categories like Bootlegger's Daughter, Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side and Christmas Mourning. Bootlegger's Daughter by Margaret Maron. Yesterday, we lost Margaret Maron. In 2013, the Mystery Writers of America celebrated Maron’s contributions to the mystery genre by naming her a Grand Master – an honor first bestowed on Agatha Christie. Margaret Maron grew up in the country near Raleigh, North Carolina, but for many years lived in Brooklyn, New York. When she and her artist husband returned to the farm that had been in her family for a hundred years, she began a series based on her own background. The first book, Bootlegger’s Daughter , became a Washington Post bestseller that swept the major mystery awards for its year — winning the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards for Best Novel — and is among the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Century as selected by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Later, her Deborah Knott novels Up Jumps the Devil, Storm Track, and Three-Day Town each also won the Agatha Award for Best Novel. Margaret is also the author of the Sigrid Harald series of detective novels. In 2008, Maron received the North Carolina Award for Literature, the highest civilian honor the state bestows on its authors. Bootlegger's Daughter. This smart, sassy series introduces Deborah Knott, candidate for district judge--and daughter of an infamous bootlegger. Deborah's campaigning is interrupted when disturbing new evidence surrrounding a murder that has never been solved surfaces and she is implored to investigate. Read More. This smart, sassy series introduces Deborah Knott, candidate for district judge--and daughter of an infamous bootlegger. Deborah's campaigning is interrupted when disturbing new evidence surrrounding a murder that has never been solved surfaces and she is implored to investigate. Read Less. All Copies ( 102 ) Softcover ( 76 ) Hardcover ( 26 ) Choose Edition ( 5 ) Book Details Seller Sort. 1993, Grand Central Publishing. Edition: 1993, Grand Central Publishing Mass-market paperback, Fair Details: ISBN: 0446403237 ISBN-13: 9780446403238 Pages: 272 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Published: 06/1993 Language: English Alibris ID: 16694620837 Shipping Options: Standard Shipping: €3,60. Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination. Seller's Description: Fair. ► Contact This Seller. 1993, Grand Central Publishing. Arlington, TX, USA. 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The chief point of a series like this is very much the characters, especially the principal. Second point is the atmosphere, in this case the landscape and people of a North Carolina county, of which Deborah Knott is a judge--or she becomes so in the course of this first book of the series. Yes, the plot is good and the mystery is in-drawing, but the people are the thing. You like the good people (most of them), hiss the bad ones (or feel sorry for them) and have a wonderful time. Mysteries are very archetypal and stand in for the whole human situation, with the comedic resolution that reassures you of something eventual beyond the failures and disintegration you are only too prone to wallow in. The Edgar Awards Revisited: Bootlegger’s Daughter by Margaret Maron (Best Novel; 1993) Join Angie Barry for a look at Margaret Maron's Edgar Winning novel! Over nearly a decade as a bookseller at Barnes & Noble, I came to know the big names in every genre. Even if I’d never read one of their books myself, I could recommend them to customers based on the author’s reputation and the reader’s interests. Margaret Maron was one of those big names. I knew her mysteries were set in the South. That she had strong heroines. That her prose was award-winning and not too gory. She’d go down well with book clubs, older women, fans of Patricia Cornwell and Sue Grafton. But until this week I’d never picked her up myself. Which is a shame, because if I’d known just how great she was, I would have been much more aggressive and enthusiastic in selling her books. See More: Revisiting the Edgar Awards. Bootlegger’s Daughter introduces Deborah Knott, a North Carolina defense attorney who decides—after witnessing a blatantly racist verdict from a judge that unfairly punished a working-class black plumber—to throw her hat into the next election for judge. But this isn’t a political thriller; or, at least, not completely. Because no sooner has Deborah begun campaigning when Gayle Whitehead, an eighteen-year-old she once babysat for, comes to her begging for help. Gayle’s famous in town because, when she was a mere three months old, she and her beautiful mother Janie disappeared for three days. When they were finally found in an old abandoned mill by the creek, Gayle was dehydrated but okay. Janie, however, had been shot in the head. For eighteen years her mother’s murderer has walked free, and this nags at Gayle. With college looming on her horizon, the girl desperately wants answers. Could her father have actually hired a hitman to kill his gorgeous, sweet wife? Did her mother do something to trigger the event? As Gayle puts it herself: “What was her tragic flaw, Deborah?” At this point, the teen wants to know why even more than who : “I’ve got Grampa Poole’s trust fun, and I’ll spend every last cent if that’s what it takes to find out what she was really like that somebody felt she needed killing.” Now Deborah’s got two huge issues on her plate: win the election and solve Janie Whitehead’s murder. With the first, she’ll have to overcome her infamous father’s criminal record as a wildly successful moonshine bootlegger. With the second, she’ll have to crack a case that’s been cold for nearly two decades, succeeding where two separate investigations have already failed. Easy-peasy lemon-squeezy, right? Luckily, Deborah’s background makes her an exceedingly sharp investigator. Thanks to her experience in the courtroom, she knows how to ask pointed questions and observe people closely. Born and raised in Colleton County, she knows every family, every reputation, every dirty little secret that filters through the local grapevine. Thanks to her criminal father, she knows better than most that people can live two lives. And as a defense attorney, she knows there are always shades of grey… It’s not surprising Bootlegger’s Daughter won the 1993 Edgar. Deborah is a likable, smart, and upright heroine. Throughout the text, she comments on The Big Issues of racism, sexism, homophobia, gay rights, religion, family, morality. “…Punishment’s supposed to deter a person from doing it again, not crush his spirit. And it shouldn’t depend on what color his skin is, what sex he happens to be, or what social class he’s from. “White-collar embezzlers should get at least as much time as a blue-collar worker who steals a TV; if a mayor’s daughter gets to do community service for a hit and run, so should the mayor’s cook’s son. The Perry Byrds can be bigots, snobs, and toadies in their personal lives, but when they put on that black robe and sit on that high seat, they should be like priests administering law like a sacrament of Justice. For all the people. It’ll never be an exact science, but it doesn’t have to be a crap shoot either.” Maron has a strong, assured voice: her prose is never too flowery, but it’s still full of sharp color. There’s an authentic sense of place that could only come from a native; Maron paints such an evocative picture of North Carolina’s landscape that you can hear the insects droning and smell the tobacco growing. Perhaps Daughter ’s greatest strength is its cast, filled with complex characters so real you expect to see them on the street, bound together by family ties—some that strangle, others that sustain. Maron gives this novel weight and substance through Deborah’s connections: her many relatives, old friends, and lifelong neighbors. Deborah knows everyone so intimately that we feel we do, too, making the mystery all that more compelling as it unfolds. See More: 1993’s Edgar Award for Best “First” Novel. And when everything is finally laid out, the result is deeply satisfying and pretty surprising. Which is the hallmark of a great mystery, yeah? All the pieces fit snugly together, the completed picture makes perfect sense, but it’s not at all what you predicted. Sure, Bootlegger’s Daughter doesn’t blaze a path into daring new territory. It’s not a turning point signaling a bold, fresh shift in fiction. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel to be worthy of accolades. Maron delivered an extremely well-made whodunit that was fun to read , and too often I think awards committees forget that media should be enjoyable. It’s always nice when something this accessible and entertaining goes home with the big statue. Notes From the 1993 Edgar Awards: Maron beat out Joe Gores ( 32 Cadillacs ), Liza Cody ( Backhand ), Kem Nunn ( Pomona Queen ), and Walter Mosley ( White Butterfly ) for the top honor. Donald E. Westlake was the Grand Master. Best Motion Picture Screenplay honors went to Michael Tolkin for The Player (he beat out Aaron Sorkin for A Few Good Men , David Peoples for Unforgiven , and Neil Jordan for The Crying Game ). Michael Connelly took home Best First Novel for The Black Echo , the first in his wildly successful Harry Bosch series. Best Paperback Original went to Dana Stabenow’s A Cold Day for Murder . The then-governor-of-Arkansas and soon-to-be-President Bill Clinton was given the Raven Award as the Reader of the Year. And Lynda La Plante took home Best Television Feature/Miniseries Teleplay for Prime Suspect , starring Helen Mirren as the determined DCI Jane Tennison. Next week, tune in as we take a look at The Sculptress by Minette Walters. See you then! 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